A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Tobelo in Indonesia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/03/19 / 2019-03-27 21:42:03 / March 27, 2019 @ 9:42 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:42:03 / 6:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ka5j. Id of event: us2000ka5j. Exact location of event, longitude 127.508 East, latitude 1.772 North, depth = 131 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tobelo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tobelo (c. 10 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km W of Tobelo, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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